, 1887-05-26
THE NEW YORK WORLD.
1 Paper Of SurpriSes-Something About
Its staff.
INptciaI JOrreSpOndence,I
NEur Nnpr- L

Especial Correspondence,I
NEW YORK, April l3.
The New York World has ALWAYS been a
paper of extremes. When it was started il
1860 it was so extremely religious that it r7a-
fused theatrical advertisements, and So cx-
trpmely Improbable that in one year il drove
its first editor. Mr. Alexander Cummings.
into the west, into politics and into a terri
t"rial governorship. During the war its cx-
tTpme opposition 20 the administration made
lts"ne money. Later. under the mana cement
Of Mr, William Henry HurIburt, it became so
extremely literary that it reached about rs
low an ebb III circulation and influence as it
Is possible for Il newspaper to attain and still
live, and yet az the time, in the minds of the
scholars Of this country, it was regarded Us
the best written paper in New York.
When Mr. Joseph Pulitzer came OH from
St. Louis, in 1883, and purchased it for 3l00.-
OGc, there was practically nothing to buy but
the Associated Press franchise
There is something III the first twenty-throe
years of the history Of The World which
points moral FOR woald be newspaper men
1t proves that newspaper is the servant of
the public, and when the servant attempts to
put on airs Of moral or Intellectual superb
Or!ty over its master It ceases to pay.
Under Mr.. Pulitzer The World has at
tempted 10 attain the extreme of ENTERPRISE.
1t has advertised, it has bnasted OF its ciIcu-
latiOn, of its advertising, and by dint of p,r--
slStcntly footing its own horn it has sue
Ccedcd III becoming in many respects the
leading paper of the metrODoiS. There is no
doubt that to-day The World is u paving
piece of newspaper property, but that it pays
the enormous profits which are claimed for it
few old newspaper men believe.
(t,1 T,J,,, Ir,cL-s,.iU :.
of The World at Il salary of $l2,0 D year
He is thorough newspaper mau, alert, per
tinacious, an admirable executive editor aIsi
a clear, forceful writer. He is one Of the
most popular newspaper men in New York,
an officer of the Press club, and active i'll
every movement for the advancement of the
profession.
The World has the largest staff of any
paper in New York city. Nearly 6OJ men
draw their pay at The World Office on Park
row, and it takes over So, 600 weekly to cover
the pay roll. This is exclusive of the CORE
spOndents aud occasional writer's, who number
about 400.
The World is now practically three papers.
its Brooklyn and New Jersey editions each
having its managing and city editors and
local staff There is no doubt that it is Mr.
PulitGers ultimate intention TO make three
Nt'SAaaNN Et't't'N' tilS t>ttlDiSllnient OF a
plant in Brooklyn is n step in this direction
He also thinks of following the example of
several of the Boston and Chicago papers and
The New York Sun in issuing an afternoon
clifton
There is but little gossip about the Office.
All sorts of rumOrs concerning il float around
Park ro.T, and are the more easily believed
because The World is always doing some
thing surprising. When Col. CoC!.crilI went
to Europe some time ago I was seriously in
formed by several old newspaper men that he
had gone to London to start an English coun-
terpart of The New York World. Wild ms il
sounds, the rumOr was seriously canvassed by
men who ought to have known better But
shows the feeling i'll regard to the paper W,
can calculate pretty closely what most of the
papeIs will do, but we are prepared to credit
any bold or startling measure which may be
imputed to The World. If Mr. Pulitzer should
buy the New York postoffice for his paper the
newspaper men would he no more surprised
at the evidence of his success than thoy would
be at his failure if it should stop publication
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it is a paper Of surprises, and we are getting
Il 'ed 10 1t. ALLAN FoEHAN.